Learners' Perceptions of How Anxiety Interacts With Personal and Instructional Factors to Influence Their Achievement in English: A Qualitative Analysis of EFL Learners in China

By Jackie Xiu Yan, E. Horwitz. 2008

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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Theorizing Affect in Foreign Language Learning: An Analysis of One Learner's Responses to a Communicative Portuguese Course (2009, background): “To date, there have been relatively few applications of grounded theory to describe and understand second language learning, of which Aveni (2005); Kalaja and Ferreira (2003); Kalaja, Paiva, and Ferreira (2008); and Yan and Horwitz (2008) are recent exemplars.”
Learner Attitudes, Perceptions, and Beliefs in Language Learning (2012, background): “Similar studies have correlated learners’ perceptions of themselves as language learners and their levels of FL anxiety (Yan & Horwitz, 2008) and their extrinsic or intrinsic motivation (Noels, Clément, & Pelletier, 2001).”
Mindfulness, coping self-efficacy and foreign language anxiety: a mediation analysis (2017, background): “Significant negative associations were also found between FLA and integrative motivation (Rodríguez & Abreu, 2003), course grades (Elkhafaifi, 2005; yan & Horwitz, 2008) and learners’ self-esteem and self-confidence (Izadi & Atasheneh, 2012).”
An exploration of speaking-in-class anxiety with Chinese ESL learners (2011, background): “In the context of non-USA studies, Yan and Horwitz (2008) identified 12 major thematic affinities (variables) with Chinese FL learners: regional differences; language aptitude; gender; foreign language anxiety; language learning interest and motivation; class arrangements; teacher characteristics;…”
An Investigation of Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety and Its Relationship with Students' Achievement. (2010, background): “Yan and Horwitz (2008) found that most of the people believed that females are better language learners than males.”
An Exploration of Foreign Language Anxiety and English Learning Motivation (2011, unknown): “Since then, studies on foreign language anxiety have been flourishing, using the FLCAS, or other scales, or other datacollecting instruments such as diaries, journals, interviews, and observations [6, 8, 11–18].”